Visual representation of atheists fighting for equality and winning

This is a before and after shot documenting the rapid changes the commanders at Travis Air Force Base are implementing. I made Dan Rawlings’ quite legitimate ‘Let there be light…’ complaint public on Wednesday morning. The picture at the bottom represents Wednesday night.

I want to point out that the lit tree is not part of the series of displays, so please spare the obvious comment. And to those who are new to the story, only a week ago there was no atheist sign at all.

We kept fighting and winning. However, the situation continues to worsen at Fort Campbell Kentucky, where atheists are not permitted to wish you a safe holiday season. Also, you can probably see the Kentucky nativity from outer space.

This is yet another reminder to all the fledgling startup atheist groups on military bases… stick to your guns. Things can change, sometimes very fast.

Festival Reminder: Service Members, veterans, and civilians should start planning their trips to the first atheist festival on a military base. This thing is going to be massive, and it’s coming up soon – March 31st, 2012 @ Fort Bragg, NC.

Richard Dawkins is the keynote speaker, but there are many others including great music and children’s activities from Camp Quest. Dawkins tends to max out the capacity wherever he goes, but the large outdoor venue at Fort Bragg will not have this problem. Did I mention it’s free?

Basically, their story was about the initial MRFF complaint that the religious displays should be by the chapel instead of the main entrance.

I submitted a comment, with a link to your blog of everything tagged for “Travis AFB”, saying how out-of-date the story already was (and how the original seemed to be blaming atheists), and later the whole story was gone.

Ripberger

Out of curiosity, could a base commander legally get away with banning all religious and non-religious displays on base? That may sound like the “coward’s way out,” but it would bring an end to these sort of issues.

It amazes me to no end that few people truly understand the First Amendment and common decency. If the Christian display was vandalized, there would be an uproar and cries of discrimination, yet no one speaks out when the atheist display is damaged. Where is the empathy? Atheist U.S. soldiers fight for the right of every U.S. citizen, including Christians, to observe their faith/beliefs. Why deny the fundamental rights of atheists to express their beliefs? Sigh (facepalm)

brianwestley

And now the beliefnet article is mysteriously back — though you might notice the URL doesn’t quite match the headline:

I’ve done a few articles on it illustrating how controversial it is, and how it doesn’t jive with the Army’s official line about the spiritual fitness testing. They claim it’s not about religion, that spiritual = team spirit or human spirit.

It’s had stale beliefnet articles since it was born. But now they don’t even update it once a month anymore. I think a script stopped working – or the guy who knew how to work the website got moved to another military base.

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